On 11/11/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
If typing "ISBN xxx" is automagically converted to "{{ISBN|xxx}}" then there's no harm in people only knowing the latter form, is there...
The same goes for pipe tricks - ultimately all it can do is save you a few keystrokes. You don't get any new functionality by typing [[Foo (blah)|]] that you couldn't get just by typing [[Foo (blah)|Foo]].
Right, but if the functionality exists, we should not go out of our way to obscure it by pre-save transformation. There's no reason not to leave it in the page text itself.
That one's a bit different. There's no other way to produce the signature (short of manually typing your linked username and the date and time), and the transformed output bears no relation to the input.
Exactly why it's impossible in that case to leave it in the page text. There are no other excuses, I don't think.